Amendments and additions – most recent first

As I wrote on the first page of this site, there’s likely to be continual changes as it develops over time. Looking at other sites I’ve found I have a problem discovering what has changed since my last visit so, in an attempt to track what I’ve changed myself, I’ll make a determined attempt to keep this up to date by using this page to record each change.

However, although each reference will take you to the actual comment, when there is more than one change on a single page you will be taken only to that page and will then have to look down for the amendment or addition.

The latest additions and amendments to any of the pages will be marked by a pale background – as in this paragraph. I hope this will be sufficient to mark changes and be relatively easily seen.

The three Islamic urban design pages have been divided into five new pages in order to have them load faster. The glossary has also been divided into two pages – the glossary and an addendum. The other pages have been amended accordingly.

A photograph and note have been added on the design of manara, notes on lighting have been expanded, a note and photographs added on the qutra and kaffiyah, and a note and photograph added on rain in urban areas.

The page dealing with an approach to housing has been made into two pages, as has the introduction page; the other pages in the Islamic design section have been amended to take account of this. Illustrations have been added to the graphics page on poster design and text amended and supplemented.

Additions and amendments have been made to the glossary and photographs and notes added on Grand Hamad and the character of development in the NDOD. A note and photo have also been added on the battles of Bullecourt.

Links to other sites have been added, together with words to the glossary and references, and a link from one of the Gulf architecture pages. An illustration has been added to the geometry page and photos and note on a modern building in Doha.

Notes have been added on the history of the Gulf, a number of additions have been made to the glossary and a study has been added to the geometry page. A brief note has been added on César François Cassini.

A number of references and additions to the glossary have been made. Notes have been added on interaction between men and women, cleaning teeth, landscaping at entrances, the architecture of the nineteen seventies and mihrab design.

A number of references have been added along with a photograph and note on thirteen point geometry in nature, and a note and photograph of a new traditional door. A sketch has been added on the continuing design of this site.

A number of references have been added. The note on manara design has been amended, and a note and photograph added on an old masjid in Wakra. Notes and photographs have been added on the road system, old infill housing, and on the development at the point of the New District of Doha.

Illustrations of the public house scheme have been added on the Islamic design pages, together with a word to the vocabulary and notes on sponsorship. A portrait of Captain John Wesley Wright has been added on the Cassini pages.

An item has been added to the references, a note on oil and gas begun, and a little more written about the design of the traditional public house. Notes and an illustration have been added on John Wesley Wright and others to the Cassini pages, and a page has been added that hopefully will eventually list the resources used on the Cassini pages. Photographs and notes have also been added relating to the pressures on land and traditional mosque design.

Three notes have been added to and amended relating to Mme de Cassini, a number of additions have been added to the Islamic references, and a list of salt tolerant plants and watering requirements added. Notes and photographs have been added on the majlis, leisure on farms, signing and the patching of roads.

Amendments have been made to the pages on the Cassini and Maraldi families, Jean Dominique and César François Cassini, and a number of additions have been made to the Islamic references, glossary and Society page.

A diagram has been updated and a note and illustrations added to the Cassini section dealing with William Windham and related issues, and notes amended relating to one each of the Maraldi and Cassini families. Information on climate has been enlarged on the Islamic design section, and a number of references added.

A photograph and notes have been added on the development of Doha, together with some diagrams and notes on problems associated with definitions. A photograph has been added to the geometry page, together with a note on inheritance division and note and photograph on pearl divers on the Society page. Photographs and associated notes have been added on the fort in Doha, the palace of the Ruler, and on door design. Two references have been added, and a note on Mme de Cassini has been revised.

A new page has been added dealing with the household and its relationship to the land on which it is developed, a note added on security relating to the house on its lot, and a note and photo added on an aspect of urban design.

A number of additions have been added to the glossary and references, and amendments to the page dealing with building elements. Photographs and notes have been added on shade structures and the interior of the Museum of Islamic Art. A note has been added on pressures on the economy.